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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






2. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






3. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






4. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






5. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






6. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






7. The person who 'tells' the story.






8. The selection of words in a literary work.






9. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






10. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






11. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






12. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






13. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






14. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






15. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






16. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






17. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






18. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






19. The main character of a literary work.






20. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






21. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






22. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






23. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






24. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






25. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






26. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






27. The organizational form of a literary work.






28. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






29. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






30. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






31. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






32. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






33. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






34. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






35. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






36. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






37. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






38. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






39. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






40. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






41. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






42. The dictionary meaning of a word.






43. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






44. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






45. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






46. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






47. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






48. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






49. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






50. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.